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Show THE "THIRTEEN" SUPERSTITION. Col. John McEIroy, an adopt in war statistics, contributes figures to show that tho "silly auporsltltlou" attaching attach-ing to tho number thirteen finds no justification in tho records of tho civil war. "It Is In ovldonco Juat now In tho tlresomo clatter about tho republican repub-lican convention being tho thlrteonth In tho hlatory of tno organization." Tho war records show, according to Col. McElroy's curious deductions, that tho totnl loss of tho thlrty-ono regiments and battorlca benrlng tho designation thlrtoon was G,G0i, that of tho samo number of regiments and batteries nunibored twclvo was C.775, while- that of thoso numbered fourteen was 7,075. Not a regiment or bat-tory bat-tory bearing tho numbor thlrtoon had any special ill luck, whilo most of them escaped with small loss. Philadelphia Phila-delphia Lodger. , |